Latest Updates - VETbytes

Latest updates feed for emergency and critical care (ECC)

We have trawled through the latest veterinary journals and created condensed summaries of the most recently published papers relevant to ECC

Keep up to date with the latest evidence without having to spend hours reading and use these as templates for your journal clubs as part of quality improvement (QI) in your practice

25th February 2022

Study shows that cats sustaining canine bite wounds generally have a good prognosis and finds that the presence of multiple injuries, penetrating injuries, radiographic evidence of vertebral body fractures, body wall abnormalities, hypoproteinaemia, elevated ALT, high animal trauma triage scores and high severities of injury scores were negative predictors of survival ...read more

18th February 2022

Study shows that severe mucosal damage and associated barrier dysfunction e.g. acute haemorrhagic diarrhoea, may trigger chronic GI disease later in life in dogs ...read more

11th February 2022

Study showed that fresh feline RBCs exhibited no in vitro evidence of injury following passage through an 18 μm microaggregate filter ...read more

6th February 2022

A large study of dogs and cats admitted to an ER demonstrated that substantial increases in plasma lactate over the 6 hours following admission were associated with high mortality and a delta lactate > 4.5 mmol/L was 100% specific for death ...read more

31st January 2022

Study in cats shows that the intrarenal injection method for euthanasia results in rapid cardiopulmonary arrest with few agonal reactions in most patients ...read more

22nd January 2022

Dogs diagnosed with septic peritonitis and other causes of surgically treated sepsis with a quick sequential [sepsis-related] organ failure assessment score (qSOFA) ≥ 2 may have a higher risk of in-hospital mortality ...read more

2nd January 2022

Study documents that, consistent with the findings in humans, hyperglycaemia may be associated with decreased survival in dogs (but not cats) with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and confirms that although MGCS may be predictive of survival in both dogs and cats, a single value should not be used in isolation to prognosticate survival in this population of animals ...read more

30th December 2021

A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, blinded study with 65 male, castrated and obstructed cats showed that prazosin administered at 0.5 mg PO q12h for 7 days did not decrease the rate of recurrent urethral obstruction versus placebo ...read more

29th December 2021

The use of two common peristaltic infusion pumps in veterinary hospitals (NIKI V4 [Everest] and Infusomat FmS [B Braun]) were shown to produce levels of haemolysis that were not significantly different than that caused by gravity alone during transfusion of feline pRBCs at a rate of 25 ml/h ...read more

22nd December 2021

Subcutaneous ureteral bypass (SUB) device placement with intraoperative ultrasound guidance is an effective alternative for the treatment of ureteral obstruction in cats and may be a more accessible option when a trained veterinarian does not have access to fluoroscopy ...read more

20th December 2021

Study found that most compounded famciclovir formulations were inaccurate, imprecise and inconsistent and suggested that tablets may be preferred over compounded famciclovir formulations for the management of feline herpesvirus – 1 ...read more

18th December 2021

Study shows that vasoconstrictive shock is more common than vasodilatory shock in dogs with anaphylaxis ...read more

18th December 2021

RCVS knowledge summary concludes that ventricular tachycardia may be associated with an increase in mortality rates in patients with GDV ...read more

16th December 2021

RCVS knowledge summary concludes that computed tomography is likely sufficient for the diagnosis and surgical planning of intervertebral disc disease in Dachshunds ...read more

15th December 2021

A recent RCVS knowledge summary found there is weak evidence supporting IDEXX Angio Detect™ as a highly specific and moderately sensitive diagnostic test when compared to Baermann coprology ...read more

15th December 2021

Creatinine concentration at 48 hours (Crea48) is a strong predictor for short- and medium-term survival in cats with acute on chronic kidney disease in cats ...read more

12th December 2021

History and physical examination findings are more useful predictors of a diagnosis of inflammatory lower airway disease in cats than venous blood gas variables ...read more

11th December 2021

An RCVS knowledge summary concluded that overall, there was not sufficient evidence reporting if timing of surgical intervention influenced the mortality rate in dogs and cats with traumatic diaphragmatic rupture and therefore currently clear recommendations cannot be made ...read more

9th December 2021

A standard approach to leak testing in dogs may not be ideal as a cadaveric study demonstrated that the volume of saline required to reach maximum intraluminal peristaltic pressure of 25mmHg peristaltic pressure is greater in dogs >20kg versus dogs <20kg ...read more

9th December 2021

Study of 106 dogs with non-traumatic hemoperitoneum finds no evidence to support a diagnosis of malignancy on the basis of ultrasonographic detection of a splenic cavitated lesion, and such a finding should therefore not influence any recommendation or decision regarding euthanasia ...read more

4th December 2021

Study challenges the blanket prescription of antimicrobials in dogs with aspiration as some dogs may have a potentially self-limiting pneumonitis rather than develop a bacterial pneumonia ...read more

3rd December 2021

Study suggests that DGGR lipase could support a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis if point of care or quantitative cPL results are not available or if there are financial limitations in performing other diagnostic tests ...read more

3rd December 2021

Knowledge summary from the RCVS shows that soybean oil-based intravenous lipid emulsion (IVLE) therapy is the most studied, and may be the preferable intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) for the treatment of feline permethrin toxicity ...read more

30th November 2021

Implementation of a formal debriefing tool after performing CPR can enable formal identification of the strengths and weaknesses of resuscitation teams and has shown to improve training and care for cardiac arrest patients in people ...read more

30th November 2021

Respiratory complications such as aspiration pneumonia and upper airway obstruction are common in dogs with tetanus and are associated with a high mortality rate. This knowledge could help guide clinicians to make proactive choices to decrease the incidence of such complications and may allow a more informed discussion of risks with clients ...read more

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